Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (SP)
Puttur, Aug 22: Mohammed Shaqir (22), a resident of Pilya in Nekkiladi village near Kadaba in the taluk, has filed a complaint against six youth, who are said to be activists of Bajrang Dal, for assaulting him. In the complaint he filed with Kadaba police station, he has said that the assaulters were angry that he was talking to a Hindu girl while travelling in a bus on Saturday August 20 evening near Nekkitadka in Mardhala.
He has named the accused as Santosh Suvarna from Kodibail in Kadaba, Yadava Shetty Sarapadi from Bantwal, Girish, a jeep driver from Kadaba, Vijet from Nekkitadka, Satish naik Melinamane from Kadaba, and Raghuram Naik, a resident of Kukkerebettu in Kodimbala.
The Kadaba police, who have registered a case against the accused, arrested Santosh Suvarna and Yadava Shetty, in an operation undertaken late night on Saturday. They arrested persons were produced in a court.
In the meantime, in a counter-complaint, Mithun from Yedamangala, who has got himself admitted into a private hospital in Puttur, has complained that he was talking to his friend, Harish Kollesagu, near Mardhala on Saturday evening, when a gang of several youth comprising Mohammed Shaqir from Pilya in Nekkiladi village, Abbas, Andukunhi and Aseem, all three from Mardhala, apart from four others, had beaten them up.